I usually find rants about Big Government Conspiracies tiresome, paranoid and self-important. Last night, I was watching an excellent documentary about OWS on Current TV, and someone being interviewed linked the movement to the Arab Spring, declaring that she and her fellow protesters were putting their lives on the line.No. You’re not. Comparing OWS with […]
Today’s Deep Cover speaks for many, I’m afraid.I’m certainly not in favor of burning down the barn to get rid of the mice, but I can’t say the same for the people who rallied for Obama in 2008, thinking that he was going to accomplish miracles.At the time, I compared him to RFK, who had […]
Keith Knight has been chronicling his life in “the K Chronicles” for getting onto a couple of decades now, and it is consistently fresh because he rarely reaches into the Bag of Accepted Memes for his observational gags. He just tells you what he’s been thinking and doing lately, with more wit than jokes to […]
Today’s Rhymes with Orange speaks for a lot of us. I’m feeling that Santa had better stay in business, too, given the options out there for the rest of us.Fortunately, I never figured on retiring anyway. Most writers don’t, in part because they can’t afford to, even in good times, and in part because other […]
Sarah Laing is back. You’ll have to go to her blog to read the rest of this cartoon, and you should want to.It’s easier to bookmark a link than to delete that bookmark later (well, marginally), so when Sarah put “Let Me Be Frank” on hiatus a few months ago in order to work on […]
Clay Bennett is a longtime favorite of mine, both for his clean style and for his ability to reduce things to the simple concepts a political cartoon must contain, but without oversimplifying a complex issue.Well, I’m not his only fan. Bennett has just won the Ranan Lurie award from the United Nations for this cartoon, […]
There are several strips I keep reading waiting for them to find their legs. “Barney & Clyde” has really been wandering from piller to post since it launched a year and a half ago, but, in the last few months, it has begun to gain stability and to provide some laughs, albeit pretty far removed […]
Jeff Danziger needs to go on my list of cartoonists who would be here all the time if I didn’t pay attention.But this panel has some eternal truth to it, as well as some new truths and some things we really need to think about for the future but probably won’t.To start with, the Folks […]
Pros & Cons is always worthwhile and often laugh-out-loud funny, either because Kieran Meehan has found a new spot to tickle or because he’s gone back to one of his best and hit it yet again, sharply. (I’ve mentioned both Jack Benny and the old, classic Bob Newhart Show enough that readers should recognize by […]
Not sure where this story arc in Agnes is going, except that Agnes is one of those strips that, when it suddenly heads off somewhere unexpected, you jump in and hang on, because you know it won’t be a waste of your attention.I do know that Agnes and her grandmother are headed off to visit […]
I like Pat Oliphant’s cartoon. He manages to portray Gingrich as both the Pharisee in the temple and the man praying on the street corner, which isn’t a hard combo, since they are both people who would rather be thought of as religious than actually embrace the values of religion.On the other hand, Matthew quotes […]
Frank Gorshin used to complain that most impressionists didn’t do impressions of the celebrities they were supposed to be imitating, but rather did impressions of other impressionists imitating those celebrities.Instead of imitating Kirk Douglas, they imitated Gorshin imitating Kirk Douglas. Instead of imitating Richard Nixon, they imitated David Frye imitating Richard Nixon. Instead of imitating […]
Timing is everything in comedy, they say, and Tak Bui’s timing with this PC & Pixel was pretty good.Thursday I had to hang around for a conference call from another time zone and it didn’t wrap up until a few minutes after four p.m. here, which meant I had to immediately throw the dog into […]
“That is Priceless” is a new feature at GoComics, having started October 31, but you can find a significant backlog at Steve Melcher’s blog, where he has apparently been adding irreverent titles to great art since 2009. There’s even a book of them, if you’re still shopping for Christmas or Channukah or the Epiphany or […]
Normally, I would bristle at an Irish drinking joke, except that there’s no suggestion of overindulgence in today’s Stone Soup and, rather to the contrary, the point is that Evie appreciates good beer.Evie appreciates a lot of things, to the continual consternation of those who keep expecting her to act her age.Whatever that means.Jan Eliot […]